Festival mushrooms with more than morels

Published
12:00 am CDT, Thursday, April 15, 2010

Sous chef Mychal Summers uses a melon baller to prep mushrooms to be stuffed, while owner Jim Newton cooks a dish Wednesday at the Mississippi Half-Step Restaurant in Grafton. The restaurant has won several awards for the Mushroom Cook-Off at the annual Piasa Winery Mushroom Festival. The festival will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 26.